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Southwestern Historical Quarterly

THE EXPEDITION OF PANFILO DE NARVAEZBYGONZALO FERNANDEZ OVIEDO Y VALDEZEDITED BY HARBERT DAVENPORTAPPENDIXI. FAMILY HISTORY AND CAREER OF ANDRES DORANTES1. The House of Captain Andrs Dorandes de C arranzaBy His Son, Bdltasar Dorantes de CarranzalIBecause he is my father, I shall be as brief as possible touch-ing the merits and services of Captain Andres Dorantes de Car-ranza. But I confess to your Excellency that while those of theConquistadores were great; those of my father were miraculous,as is shown by the proofs and by his history, which was printedand published with the license and by the authority of His RoyalMajesty the Emperor, our Lord Charles V, of glorious memory.This I have in my possession, as something that touches me verynearly; and since the volume is not very large, if Your Excellencydeigns to permit, I shall some day bring it before your eyes. AndI know that because of your most merciful heart, you will feelpity rather than weariness, on learning the great hardships andpilgrimages that man suffered, shipwrecked by sea and by land,until God delivered him to the promised land with many miraclesand marvellous works, curing the sick and raising the dead.After long captivity and slavery, God took him, and deliveredhim, and brought him out through unknown lands, opening roads,and providing people where none had been seen before; whocame, because of his fame, from the uttermost parts of the earth,calling him "Son of the Sun," and of God.He travelled more than two thousand leagues, crossing from'From Susmaria de las Cosas de la Nueva Espana con noticia individualde los descendientos legitimos de los conquistadores y primeros pobla-dores esparoles por Baltasar Dorantes de Carranza, pp. 264-275. Baltasarwrote in 1604, and though the first pages of his manuscript are missing,it was evidently addressed to the viceroy.